I’ll be honest with you. Despite it’s health benefits, I’m not a huge fan of kale. There are people out there who might say, “but Pristine, it’s delicious!” and those people are lying to me and to themselves.

Of course I’ll eat it in a sandwich or wrap if some crazy person snuck it in there and tricked me into eating it out of guilt but I don’t usually purchase it to eat out of my own free will at home.

My only exception is this warm kale bacon salad. This should come as no surprise. Bacon makes every thing better. We all know this. And yet it’s easy to forget and overlook the god send byproduct of bacon– bacon grease.

Oooooh yes. Sizzle a few slices (or the entire package) of bacon and get that yummy bacon greasy goodness. It’s completely irresponsible and damaging to pour bacon grease down your sink drain so you might as well pour it into a tupperware to save it for later.

At this point some of you might be a bit grossed out. Save your bacon grease? Yes. It keeps for months and you can use it to scramble up the most amazing eggs, mix up a nice cream gravy or in general make everything you love even more delicious.

If you’re still not convinced– no sweat. You’re probably also one of those people that loves the taste of kale. We can still be friends. And you should still try this salad.

After cooking up your bacon, save just a bit of the oil to quickly stir fry your kale. Quickly is the key word here– we are talking superrrrrr quick so the kale is just barely wilted. Kale cooks down really easily so make sure your pan is on low heat and get it in and out before squeezing a juicy lemon on top and adding in your chopped bacon.

I can eat an entire head of this kale in one sitting (remember it cooks down quite a lot) and still want more It is so good that I actually crave it.